BACKGROUND The relationship between depression and heart disease is very complex. In the group of patients with depression the coronary artery disease risk factors related to lifestyle (lack of physical activity, smoking, hypertension, and diabetes) are frequently observed. For many years, researchers have been interested in the relationship between personality and the tendency to collapse on s...

Stressors like academic tasks, job hunting, and interpersonal interaction are exerting great pressure on Chinese senior college students that may further elicit anxiety (1). Studies that focused on influencing factors of anxiety suggested that optimism could inspire individuals to pay more efforts to deal with emotional problems and in turn reduce negative psychological reactions such as anxiet...

Melanoma patients are subject to different degrees of psychosocial distress. The emotional impact of malignant melanoma can be long lasting and profound, with the most common reactions to melanoma being depression, anxiety and deterioration in quality of life. Coping styles have been shown to have a significant influence on patients' quality of life and their emotional reaction to the illness. ...

In an effort to extend theory & research on the effect of role stress on individuals and their coping ability, the relationship between Role Stress and Coping with Role Stress among women executives was examined. In today’s world more women are taking up managerial responsibilities which require them to balance multiple roles both at work and at home. This automatically gives rise to some amoun...

OBJECTIVE Cancer coping styles have been associated with several cancer-related outcomes. We examined whether baseline lifestyle behaviors differed between cancer survivors with fatalistic vs fighting-spirit coping styles, and whether there was differential response to two diet-exercise mailed-print interventions, one standardized and another individually tailored. METHODS Baseline difference...

OBJECTIVE Investigate the effects of matching preparatory interventions to patient's coping styles. METHODS Participants were 61 children, with a restricted age range of 6 through 9 years old (mean age was 7.9 years), who underwent dental restoration. Participants were randomly assigned to an information intervention, a relaxation intervention, or a control condition. Play and parent-report o...

OBJECTIVE Although various factors thought to be correlated with anxiety in cancer patients, relative importance of each factors were unknown. We tested our hypothesis that personality traits and coping styles explain anxiety in lung cancer patients to a greater extent than other factors. METHODS A total of 1334 consecutively recruited lung cancer patients were selected, and data on cancer-re...